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On the recordMay 8, 2013
I announce that the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 56, nays 43, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 115 Leg.] YEAS--56 Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Begich Blunt Boozman Burr Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Corker Cornyn Crapo Cruz Donnelly Enzi Fischer Flake Graham Grassley Hagan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hoeven Inhofe Isakson Johanns Johnson (WI) King Landrieu Lee Manchin McCain McConnell Moran Murkowski Paul Portman Pryor Risch Roberts Rubio Scott Sessions Shaheen Shelby Tester Thune Toomey Vitter Wicker NAYS--43 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Boxer Brown Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Coons Cowan Durbin Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Harkin Hirono Johnson (SD) Kaine Kirk Klobuchar Leahy Levin McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murphy Murray Nelson Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schatz Schumer Stabenow Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Warner Warren Whitehouse Wyden NOT VOTING--1 Lautenberg The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is rejected. The majority leader.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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May 8, 2013

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